Abstract

PEROZA, Juliano; MESQUIDA, Peri  and  HORVATH, Wilson Agnaldo. Thomas Morus and Utopia as the announcement of a virtuously educative community. Acta Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.42, e45842.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v42i1.45842.

This article proposes to discuss on the conception of education in the work Utopia of Thomas Morus. Based on the methodological assumptions of hermeneutics (Gadamer, 1997), whose main purpose is the understanding and interpretation of texts, in which the aim of making explicit the perspective of education expressed by Thomas Morus. In the first moment there is the presentation of the work, with emphasis on the neologismo Utopia created by Morus in his work Utopia, and its importance to the renaissance and modern philosophical and educational scene (Mumford, 1922; Furter, 1977-1978; Colombo, 2006; Bloch, 2006; Quarta, 2006; Lima, 2008). In the second part there is a discussion on Utopia as denouncing vicious education in a morally decadente, therefore, dehumanizing society, as well on the notion of arete, virtue and honor (Mora, 1964; More, 1997; Pessanha, 1997; Comte-Sponville, 2000; Vazquez, 2001; Jaeger, 2010). And in the third and last part there is the discussion of Utopia as na announcement of na education based on the cultivation of moral and virtuous development of human beings as well as a scientific and literary. It is concluded that Morus conceives Utopia as a announcement of on Community virtuously committed to the humanization process (More, 1997; Araújo & Araújo, 2006; Collins, 2010).

Keywords : Utopia; virtue; education; humanization.

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